The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-02-05
WISCONSIN LEGISE4TURE.
Senate.

Senate.
MADISON, Jan 24-Bills introduced: To
exempt all musical instruments from seiz.
ure Tor debt; to prescribe method of en-
forcing the law relating to the compulsory
education OF children; to exempt pure and
light dry wines from the provisions of one
license laws, so that such wines can be sold
in quantities greater than one gallon, not
to be drank on the premises.
MADISON, Jan. 25.-According to law a
vote was taken in the Senate for United
States senator. Senator Sawyer received
2S, John Winans and John Cochrane 1.
Bills introduced: To provide for the ap-
pointment OF fish wardens in each congress
sional district to enforce the statutes for
the protection and preservation OF game;
to appropriate $S25 for the purchase OF
Sanborn q Berryman's digest for the use OF
the Legisla ture; to providefor letting coun.
ty printing in Wood County to the lowest
bidder.
MADISON, Jan. 26.-A bill relating to
libel was introduced by Mr.. Brigham: To
amend section 2,ie7, r. S. AS amended
the section will provide that in case OF the
publication OF articles by misrepresentation
and without actual malice where subse.
quently On the first day after knowledge OF
the true circumstances a correction given
equal prominence in the same paper is pub
lished, no recovery hey ond actual damages
shall be permitted. 1t also provides that
not over $4,000 in addition to actual
damages shall in any case be recovered. 1t
further provides that actual damages shall
be construed to apply to damages sus.
tanned to the trade, profession or occupa-
ton of the person alleged to have been
ibeled. The Assembly bill which makes an
appropriation of 81 500 for the purchase
OF stationery for the departments for 1887
and 1883 and for the legislative session oil
1889, was this morning reported by Mr..
Luchsinger from the committee on claims.
with the recommendation that it pass, and
under q suspension OF the rules it was
passed. The bill authorizing the State
Horticultural Society to appoint it's annu.
al meeting was also passed under suspension
of the rules.
MADISON, Jan. 27.-A Joint resolution
was introduced by senator Widule that no
new business be received by the Legislature
after February Is. The following bills were
introduced: To provide for an annual ap.
propriation OF 81 900 for the State Horti.
cultural Society; for the suppression CT
houses OF iIl.fame; for the prevention OF
crime and the abduction OF unmarried
women
MADISON, Jan. Ex-senator Schoield in.
traduced bill providing for the appoint.
ment OF commissioner OF mineral sta
tistics, at salary OF SO, 900; also bill ap.
plying the registry law to Florence County.
Assembly.
MADISON, Jan. 24.-Only a short evening
session was held. Among the bills intro
to the Revised Statutes requiring legal no
tices to bepublished in the English language
to appropriate 81, 500 to the Gettysburg
Memorial Association, to purchase the
ground on which Wisconsin troops fought
and $1,000 for memorial stone and tablets
to authorize the construction of dams
across the st. Croix and Flambeau Rivers
MADISON, Jan. 25.-On the vote for
United States senator Sawyer received So,
Cochrane and Winans 81. Three members
were absent. The joint convention will
occur tomorrow. Mr.. Taylor, OF Barron,
introduced joint resolution proposing a
constitutional amendment in relation to
jury trials to Article VII, by adding a Sec
tion authorizing the Legislature to provide
for the finding of a verdict by the agree
ment OF less than the whole number oi
jurors. Bills were introduced to amend
section i, ,165, revised statutes, so that the
interest required to be paid by the original
owner OF lands sold for taxes on redemp-
tion shall be reduced from 20 per cent. to
Is per cent; and to amend section z, ,O92 re-
vised statutes, Ielationg to Free Masons,
Odd Fellows and similar societies and to
repeal chapter 80, laws OF 1883, and
chapter 19, laws of 1885.
MADISON Jan. 26.-The Senate and AS
sembly met in Joint session in the Assem-
bly, chamber at noon and the vote Of the
| two houses was read and recorded, and the
Hon Philetus Sawyer was declared elected
senator for the term OF Blk years beginning
March 4, 1887, to succeed himself. Bills
| introduced: To incorporate the city o.
Onalaska; for the preservation OF fish
Senator De Croft introduced resolution
to appoint Joint committee OF two sen
ators and three assemblymen to consider
all bills relating to fish and game. Senator
Greene's bill to amend the charter OF the
| Wisconsin Odd Fellows Mutual Life Insur
anee Company WAS passed.
MADISON, Jan. 27.-Mr. Chase intro
| duced Joint resolution providing Tor the
| submission to the voters oi the state Of an
amendment to section ! article of the
| state constitution, relating TO suffrage.
| Bills introduced: To provide for he bet
| ter enforcement OF the lave OF this state
| for the preservation OF fish and game; to
| provide for the competency of married
women as witnesses; to ire ,rporate the cit y
| Of Wauwatoss; to detach certain terri
| tory from the county OF Oneida and at
| tach the same to the comfy OF Lincoln; to
create municipal court It the county ol
| Oneida; to amend section H2S Il. s., re-
| lating to the registration Cf marriages,
| births and deaths to appropriate the sum
| of So 900 to Mrs. Amelia Jones, widow ol
| the late William Jones, who was killed IN
| 1883 by the fall of the south wiz 9 of the
| capitol extension. The bill to detach Ger
| tain territory from the county OF Oneida
| and to attach the same to the county oi
| Lincoln, provides that townships 36, 81
! SO. 80 and 40, north OF rarge 4, 5
| and 8 eaet be detached from the county oi
| Oneida and attached TO the county OF Lin
| coin. 1t further provides that the territory
| so detached from Oneida shall be liable for
| ite lust proportion OF the Indebtedness o.
| the county OF Lincoln existing December
| 81. 1856. The indebtedness o-@ liabilities
| and assets and resources OF the county o
| Lincoln December 81, 1886, shall be just $
| apportioned to the counties OF Lincoln aDd
| Oneida, according to the provisions OF sec
| ton OF chapter 4 II OF the Laws OF Wis
| consir for 1885, the same as though the
| territory hereby attached to Lincoln
| County had not been detached therefrom
| by said act.
MADISON, Jan. 2S.-Memorials were in
| troduced: By Mr.. Brigham-That Bentley
| & Nowlan be reimbursed for the extra
work done by them on the south wing o
| the capitol building; and by Mr.. McElroy
! that OF John Plankinton and Alexander
| Mitchell asking for the vacation OF GER
| tain alley in Milwaukee. A bill was intro
| duced by Mr.. Brigham authorizini
| the secretary OF state to audi'
the account of Bentley & Nowlar
] for restoring and rebuilding thc
| south wing OF the capitol extension after
| it's fall in 1883. The Assembly bill grant
| ing the city of Ripon the right to issue
| SIS, ,000 in bonds. which was passed in the
| Assembly the other day by viva voct
vote, was returned to the Assembly by the
| Senate, to-day, as objection was made
| that it should be carried by the ayes ano
| noes. The previous vote was reconsiderec
| and the bin again passed, the ayes and
| noes having been called.
He was sitting in the tailor shoI
| and he noticed goose sitting OF
the stove. He was q scholar and i
pleased him to let his knowledge b.
known to all men. "Our method o
forming plurals israther remarkable,
| he said after some talk with the tailor
"Yes, sir" replied the tailor with eau
! ton. .NOW. for instance" tapDin;